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Interview with Ron Parres about Vaporspace StL
We recently talked to Ron Parres, the organizer behind Vaporspace StL. They are launching a massive online vaporwave concert on May 22 and 23. Find out what the live vaporwave scene was like before C…
Published on 5 years, 3 months ago
Discussion On Plunderphonics
Episode 5
Plunderphonics is a term coined by composer John Oswald in 1985. It describes any music that is constructed by mutating existing audio recordings into entirely new compositions. By making plunderphon…
Published on 5 years, 3 months ago
Shopping for Mallsoft - Hologram Plaza and Yes! We're Open
Episode 4
Mallsoft is a subgenre of vaporwave that aims to comment on our relationship with retail spaces and consumerism. By emulating and sampling muzak, often mixed with field recordings of actual stores, M…
Published on 5 years, 3 months ago
Introduction to Dark Ambient - Miles to Midnight and SOLARIS
Episode 3
Vaporwave is haunted music because it’s about being haunted by our recent past and futures they never came. Dark Ambient is haunted because it pulls us into a subtly horrifying realm. It’s a form of …
Published on 5 years, 4 months ago
Video Games That Never Were - Pleasant Specter and Night of Terror
Episode 2
Without video game music, vaporwave would not exist. Just as vaporwave is music for a future that no longer exists, soundtracks for fictional games now haunt the Internet. These concept albums evoke …
Published on 5 years, 4 months ago
Our First Vaporwave Albums - Eccojams Vol. 1 and Computer Death
Episode 1
Both Birk and I stumbled onto vaporwave through the Internet. I can place my discovery of it within a few days thanks to archived emails and chats. Caleb Stokes, friend of the podcast messaged me on …
Published on 5 years, 4 months ago
A Preamble for Night Clerk Radio
A poet once described vaporwave as “It kinda like living in a junkyard but you're in a dystopian future and you find a bunch of VHS tapes and you're the only person in the world and everything is lo…
Published on 5 years, 4 months ago
Night Clerk Radio: Haunted Music Reviews - Trailer
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Published on 5 years, 6 months ago